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Can fighters benefit from compressed fuel storage? That would be a HUGE advantage.

Not unless there is a seperate alien tech for it, which we haven't found yet. Certainly there is no Fighter-sized Compressed Fuel Storage tech in my tech tree.

We have established a new colony called "Tropico" on a class-0 world in the Theta Persei system. The air is invigorating, but the temperature is about 35 degrees Centigrade. A jungle world. The planet contains every mineral except one, but many of them are present only in low concentrations... at least, until our Geology team finds the time to look the place over.

We will establish our main banana-bending factory on this planet!

EDIT: Only one more class-0 world remains uncolonized... in the same sector as Tropico. There are also four more un-claimed worlds with more habitable conditions than Mars had at game-start.

I think the Inertial Confinement Power (or Plant?) we found some time ago, probably in Wolf 248, is also an alien tech. Not sure if we found the whole tech or just got XXXX points of progress in this field, though.

If I'm speaking in Gold, it means I'm speaking in my capacity as a Demi-Mod.
Any other colour, it's your choice whether to pay attention or not

For the cities which were formerly great have most of them become insignificant; and such as are at present powerful, were weak in the olden time. I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus

"Why are so many rowers atheists? Because anyone who has done a 2K knows that there is no god."

Jumps are instantaneous, Hyperdrive is something quite different... it multiplies your speed x10 if you use it outside the gravity well of a sun (typically, you need to be a couple of billion km away).

And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Amen.

The first three Constellations now have full 47 Streak Air Groups. We have doubled our original rate of Fighter production from new Fighter Factories found on El Dorado or built on Earth. One continuing problem is Leaders... when you add several hundred ships (Fighters or not) to your Navy within a short period, It's not easy to scrape up enough leaders for them.